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HIV & AIDSTue, 29 Nov 2016 15:00:02 ESTnews399653547Opinion: Zika 'health emergency' status removed but it's sad news for reproductive healthThe recent announcement the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Zika no longer a "public health emergency of international concern" is sad news. Rather than signalling a victory over this high profile global health threat, it is more a recognition the virus is here to stay.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-opinion-zika-health-emergency-status.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 25 Nov 2016 05:20:01 ESTnews399272564Brazil maintains Zika emergency statusBrazil said Friday that it will continue to treat the Zika outbreak as an emergency, even as the World Health Organization considers whether to downgrade it from crisis status.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-brazil-zika-emergency-status.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 18 Nov 2016 15:08:07 ESTnews398704076UN agency lifts Zika emergency, prepares for long-term fightAcknowledging Zika is "here to stay," the United Nations health agency on Friday lifted a 9-month-old emergency declaration and prepared for a longer-term response to the mosquito-borne virus that can result in severe neurological defects in newborns whose mothers were infected.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-zika-longer-world-health-emergency.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 18 Nov 2016 15:06:55 ESTnews398704008Compound suggests pain treatment without opioid or medical marijuana side effectsIndiana University neuroscientist Andrea Hohmann took the stage at a press conference Nov. 14 in San Diego to discuss research conducted at IU that has found evidence that the brain's cannabis receptors may be used to treat chronic pain without the side effects associated with opioid-based pain relievers or medical marijuana.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-compound-pain-treatment-opioid-medical.html
NeuroscienceMon, 14 Nov 2016 17:58:34 ESTnews398368686How can health officials help contain the panic over outbreaks and epidemics?In the spring of 2014, Vietnam's state-controlled news media reported that dozens of children had died after turning up at hospitals in the capital, Hanoi, with rashes and high fevers. Doctors said the cause was a measles outbreak – the worst in Vietnamese history.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-health-panic-outbreaks-epidemics.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 18 Oct 2016 07:18:46 ESTnews395993916Outbreak of deadly monkeypox in Central Africa RepublicAt least 10 people have died in an outbreak of monkeypox in western Central African Republic, a country already hit by cholera, the health ministry announced Wednesday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-outbreak-deadly-monkeypox-central-africa.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesWed, 28 Sep 2016 17:47:29 ESTnews394303558No Zika cases detected among Olympics participants: WHONo Zika cases have so far been detected among athletes, spectators or other participants in last month's Olympic Games in Brazil, the World Health Organization said Friday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-zika-cases-olympics.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 02 Sep 2016 10:59:28 ESTnews392032507Zika reference strain sequenced—will aid in diagnosis, screeningAn international team of researchers has sequenced a strain of the Zika virus that will be used as a World Health Organization (WHO) reference strain to identify Zika virus infection in the blood, thus making it easier to diagnose the disease. While the reference material will undergo formal WHO review in October, the agency has given the go-ahead for the strain's use given the urgent need of medical products to diagnose and treat Zika. The sequence is published September 1st in Genome Announcements, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-zika-strain-sequencedwill-aid-diagnosis.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 01 Sep 2016 13:59:05 ESTnews391957127Heroin overdoses surge in LouisvilleDuring a recent shift spent treating numerous overdoses, Dr. Robert Couch heard a similar refrain from patients: they couldn't believe that the small amounts of heroin they took nearly killed them.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-08-heroin-overdoses-surge-louisville.html
AddictionWed, 31 Aug 2016 18:20:11 ESTnews391886401Global database for women exposed to Zika Swiss doctors have asked thousands of colleagues worldwide to provide data for the first global registry of women exposed to Zika, the team's lead researcher said Tuesday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-08-global-database-women-exposed-zika.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 16 Aug 2016 15:24:05 ESTnews390579835Data sharing should become routine for best reponse to public health emergenciesThe recent outbreaks caused by Ebola and Zika viruses have highlighted the importance of medical and public health research in accelerating outbreak control and have prompted calls for researchers to share data rapidly and widely during public health emergencies. However, the routine practice of data sharing in scientific research, rather than reactive data sharing, will be needed to effectively prepare for future public health emergencies, according to Jean-Paul Chretien from the Integrated Biosurveillance Section, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Defense Health Agency, United States, and colleagues, writing in PLOS Medicine.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-08-routine-reponse-health-emergencies.html
HealthTue, 16 Aug 2016 14:00:06 ESTnews390545853Study suggests 1.6 million childbearing women could be at risk of Zika virus infectionNew research from the University of Notre Dame places a new upper limit on the total number of people who could become infected by the Zika virus in the first wave of the current epidemic. The team of researchers, led by Alex Perkins, Eck Family Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and a member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, projects that as many as 93 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, including 1.6 million childbearing women, are at risk of infection over the next 2 to 3 years of the epidemic. Because these totals reflect the sum of location-specific estimates across the region, the researchers stress that it is extremely important to note that these numbers represent a worst-case scenario.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-07-zika-virus.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesMon, 25 Jul 2016 11:42:57 ESTnews388665766Experts only beginning to grasp the damage from Zika virusEven though the explosive spread of the Zika virus has been met with a new level of international response, thanks to lessons learned from the Ebola crisis, experts warn they are only beginning to grasp the damage the mosquito-borne virus can do.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-experts-grasp-zika-virus.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesMon, 20 Jun 2016 16:28:50 ESTnews385658920Simulation science takes on Zika with big dataIn recent weeks, Zika has proven much more problematic than first expected, and the World Health Organization has named Zika a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech are developing a new computer model of Zika that may predict how it will move through South American and North American populations.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-simulation-science-zika-big.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesMon, 20 Jun 2016 08:20:01 ESTnews385628506The Zika allianceChikungunya, dengue and Zika viruses are transmitted by the same mosquito species—Aedes Aegypti and Aedes albopictus—and exhibit similar symptoms in infected patients. But, compared with the painful fever, headache and joint pain often associated with chikungunya, which means 'to walk bent over' in the Kimakonde language, and dengue, also known as 'breakbone' or 'breakheart' fever, Zika is like a mild flu, and often comes and goes unnoticed.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-zika-alliance.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesWed, 15 Jun 2016 07:50:01 ESTnews385194255Colombia to force Novartis to lower prices of cancer drugColombia's government will unilaterally force the world's largest drugmaker Novartis to lower prices of a popular leukemia medicine in a closely followed patent dispute, authorities said Thursday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-colombia-novartis-prices-cancer-drug.html
MedicationsThu, 09 Jun 2016 20:30:01 ESTnews384722787Study shows Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detectionThe mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in a study published online today in Cell Reports.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-zika-virus-infects-brain-cells.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesFri, 03 Jun 2016 12:24:54 ESTnews384175420CDC urges speed on Zika as House moves to negotiate fundingThe U.S. must act more quickly to protect pregnant women from birth defect-causing Zika, a top health official said Thursday even as the House left town for its Memorial Day recess with no visible progress toward a congressional compromise on emergency funding to battle the virus.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-cdc-urges-zika-house-funding.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 26 May 2016 17:10:04 ESTnews383499031Zika virus may be linked to more eye problems in Brazilian babies with microcephalyResearchers studying babies with a Zika virus-related birth defect say they have found previously unreported eye problems possibly linked to the virus that could result in severe visual impairment. In three Brazilian infants with microcephaly, the researchers observed retinal lesions, hemorrhaging and abnormal blood vessel development not noted before in relation to the virus. The findings are being published online today in Ophthalmology, journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-zika-virus-linked-eye-problems.html
OphthalmologyWed, 25 May 2016 05:42:35 ESTnews383373743Yellow fever outbreak 'serious' but not global health emergency: WHOA deadly yellow fever outbreak in Angola and Congo is of great concern but does not amount to a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said Thursday.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-yellow-fever-outbreak-global-health.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 19 May 2016 16:20:01 ESTnews382892881Colombia battles world's biggest drugmaker over cancer drugColombia's government is giving pharmaceutical giant Novartis a few weeks to lower prices on a popular cancer drug or see its monopoly on production of the medicine broken and competition thrown open to generic rivals.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-colombia-world-biggest-drugmaker-cancer.html
MedicationsWed, 18 May 2016 03:11:56 ESTnews382759906A yellow fever epidemic: A new global health emergency?Evidence is mounting that the current outbreak of yellow fever is becoming the latest global health emergency, say two Georgetown University professors who call on the World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee under the International Health Regulations. In addition, with frequent emerging epidemics, they call for the creation of a "standing emergency committee" to be prepared for future health emergencies.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-yellow-fever-epidemic-global-health.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesMon, 09 May 2016 11:20:25 ESTnews382011611Obama wants $1.9B to fight Zika: Where does it stand?President Barack Obama's $1.9 billion request for emergency money to combat the Zika virus has been sitting before Congress for more than two months, and there's no obvious path forward despite a growing threat in the hot summer months and increasing public anxiety.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-obama-19b-zika.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 28 Apr 2016 03:50:25 ESTnews381034216Zika present in Americas longer than previously thoughtThe Zika virus was present in Haiti several months before the first Zika cases were identified in Brazil, according to new research by infectious-disease specialists at the University of Florida.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-zika-americas-longer-previously-thought.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 26 Apr 2016 16:08:20 ESTnews380905684Disease experts to compare Zika notes in ParisSome 600 disease experts from 43 nations will gather in Paris on Monday to pore over scant but increasingly worrisome data emerging about the Zika virus sweeping Latin America and threatening the world.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-disease-experts-zika-paris.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesSun, 24 Apr 2016 06:00:01 ESTnews380695280Infectious outbreaks must be combatted strategically, experts argueNew funding is not enough to guarantee success against emerging infectious diseases around the world. Rather, good governance, a long-term technology investment strategy and strong product management skills are essential, say a Dartmouth College researcher and her co-author.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-infectious-outbreaks-combatted-strategically-experts.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesThu, 21 Apr 2016 10:42:47 ESTnews380454158Canada province declares fentanyl overdoses a public health emergencyA spike in the number of fentanyl overdose deaths in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province has prompted authorities to declare a public health emergency.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-canada-province-declares-fentanyl-overdoses.html
MedicationsFri, 15 Apr 2016 13:50:01 ESTnews379946083Hawaii researchers focus on data to combat Zika virusAs the Zika outbreak takes hold in Latin America, researchers thousands of miles away in Hawaii are using data to figure out where it might spread next.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-04-hawaii-focus-combat-zika-virus.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 05 Apr 2016 04:58:09 ESTnews379051080Microbide embraces data sharing in Zika fightMicrobide Limited, an Irish clean technologies company, has signed up to the global Statement on Data Sharing in Public Health Emergencies and today published its studies demonstrating the larviciding capability against Aedes aegypti and Anopheles mosquitoes using a number of the company's biodegradable antimicrobial formulations.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-microbide-embraces-zika.html
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